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RICHMOND COUNTY ADVANCE. J. CS&f FOHD, Jr, FUnAer ail Figgnstor. A U-ve, Ina«pmaent, lK>caI Newspaper. SDBSIBIPIID8 j I n^PEK TTEiE. I S AJT^SCS. iinsGLE COPr» 3 CEXTS. WEST NEW BltlGHtON. S. U 8ATtjRDAY> DECEMBER 4, 1886. NO. 37. wmnttm. BT PAur. H. una. M moftttl I coaldBttbon liii* kaow VTliat truly U meuia to dl«. Tly Mgi ol thy •Ota would «low. And tb> holKi. o( thy tout Eeut hlch Tbou wonld.t turn Iroia tta« Fyirhi unTellml face of death. 7 ^ Ana Ungh tbeir iargon to •oorn. Am the tiabble ot midnight fool* _Bro the morniaR of trnth be bom: But I, earth's niBdsiOBS above, luakli - - - I teU theo bis fnco Is fair As the moon-bow's amber rings. And Uio gtunm in bU tuibouud iiair Like the flaab ot »tuoasruid Stirioga: His smilo is the fathomless beam Of the stor-sbine's racroa liubt. When the Saiumeni of Southland dream In the lai) of tho bolj- Niybt: For I, oartU's iiHmJnoBn abuvo. lu n kfuu'lom dt lixIc.Ton bruatli— IftozoouUiemarvelof lovu In tho uttTcilod faco ot Death. In his cyts a bcaren thoro dwelle— But they hold tow mvKterics now— And biK i>ity fur i-nrth's farewells Uuir ft^rr^ws that »hiu{iie brow; BouU tukuu fruu> Time's cold tido Uo folds to his fu«t*.-rin'4 lirooAt^ And the teur-. ot their crivf aro dried Eru tlioy «.>ut4*r tb« marts of rest: And Btilt. caitb's moilness above. In a kiu};diH<i of stunnloss breath. I (!fi7<> Oil H ii;:bt that is love lu tht} unvuilod fnoo of Death. Tliroagh tho splriiOor of stars i in pearled In tiie glow of thoir far-off grace. He is souring world by world. With tho souls lu his Htrong embrace; Ivone ethers, unstirred by a wind, At the passage of Death grow sweet. With tho frairrance that tlueU behind The tlasb of hirt winded retreat: And I, earth's uuflneMs abovo. 'MJd a kingil.iin of traniiuil breath. Have gazed on tho luster of lovo In the unvrili'il faco of Death. liut beyond the stars and the stin I can follow him still on his way. TiU the i>fa>-l-white gates are woo In the calm of tho central day. Fsr voic«8 of fond acclaitn Thrill down frmn tho tiloce of souls. Ah Death, with a t.)Hch like flame, XTnclo^en t( t> ut-al of goals: And fftuu I u V. n of heavens abovo (io I »<iH.-aLc:!t v.-,th butoless breath— Mv luiMvl of iiorffc: lovo !• tbo ungi'l nion call Deatbl i: t NELLIE'S NOBLE DEEDS. DV AIIItlE C. Si'KEEVnr.. \Thiml.lc Allcvl Oh, what a dreadful plnoc; hut tlivrc's uo one cau mend my liice<« cqnal to Smith. Little boy, does Mrs. ItiicUcl Smith live here?\ \Yes'ni liflh story, first door to your right,\ and tho ragged urchin eyed the fine t f with wide, op<!U eyes, \Lor* oiu't she Home'i\ ho said, to a near comimnion, \all shiny^Iike and soft. Whoopee! if mammy *hud some o' her finrrv we'd have u holiday dinner well as ]3iddy O'Brieu.\ \Ho! he! hi! Tim,\ roared the other, \Ihe idee of n dinner oat o' finery.\ \I mo>mt to sell it, you Isnow well enough. I wonder who she isV But in the meantime Nellie Strong had reached the fifth floor and stood, almost ijout of breath. ga/.iug about the wretched hall war where poverty held sway. \How can Ihey live so?\ she thought. \What horrid odors, and there's a half dozen babies crying below. Poor Utile things!\ then she knocked on the door be- fore her. \Come in,\ called out a woman's voice. Kellie pushed tho creaking door open and entered the small, bare chamber. At its one window a noman sat mendiu^ f^oine c<'!)tly lace. In a corner on n cot re- dined a pafe, young girl. There wus no fire in the room, although the air was keen and frosty. \Good morning, Mre. Smilb. I called vith some work; 1 wanted this lace mended particularly before the ball, and so I sought you out myself.\ -Ves, Miss Strong; be seated, pray, me look at tho lace, please?\ Nellie took Iho one vacant cbair and turned her bright eyes upon the pale young girl on the cot. . . i \Are you an invalid?\ she gently in- quired. \Oh yes; I have been one always. I never could walk, but I do not suffer mnch '^^•^on don't mean to tell mo that yon have lain here all yonr life!\ cried KelUe, -and never saw anything but these bare wallsf \Almost all m r life. It Isn't so bad foi me as you would think. The neighbors are Wnd, and mother brings me » ifower now and then, and we talk of what might bo if Iconia grow stronger. Talk is cheau. •miled tho iuvntid. \l don't think 1 could do this before Wednesday. WiU that answer, Misi yes,\ said Nellie, carelessly, \it does not matter at all. Bnt tell me, M« . ^ Smith, have you ever consulted a Rood phy- sician about your <laughter? \ i have oftcn^g^e d to do uo, bat could a litlSiw-headed., dii^-f^d Bother. \ LqIq might be helped, 1 have always believed.\ **les; and. Mis. Smith, von need not btirry about the lace. I don't think TU need it, bnt ni pay you for the work now. And—yoa onght to have a fire— good-dar.\ Before Mrs. Smith could get her glasses on to examine the bill in her lap, her visitor had gone. \Ob Lala!\ she exclaimed, \it 's a twen- fy-dollar bill; she's made a mistake.\ But L.tdii wiped away a tear from her wan cheek, and smiled np in her mother 's face. \No mistake, mother; the beantiful lady meant it for ns. I si^w her eyes were full of tears. Heaven bless her tender heart!\ \I pretsume the birthday party and so on is being rushed along, said Mr. Strong, as his daughter entereil the dining* room. \How big a check is to be called for, i>et? Don't be too hard on vour old father.\ . Nellie did not reply at once; she took her place at the table, glanced over the dainty appointments, the Fnow}* damask silken fine, the costly silver, tho* beautiful (lowers, the rare fruits, tmd all the luxuries that wealth can give. Then her eyes wan- dered to her two fair vouug sisters, and her mother's face behind* the tray, and lastly to her father's face, who just now was re- garding her with smiling. quizzicAl eyes. ''Papa,\ she said, flushing slightly. \I—I want a generous check, true enough, but I think I'll rearraugti my programme.\ \I thought so,\ smiled herfaiho:*. \What A tell-tale face yon possess. What's the latef^t freak? out with it.\ \Oh Nellie, everything was perfect; in- vitations all ready to svnd out. You're not ijoing to spoil our partv,\ cried her sisters. \I hope not,\ said'Nellie; \but first I want to tell vou all about my visit to Tbim« tie Alley.\ ' She told it ac it was. and at its close the rouugest of the girls exclaimed: \I know now, Nellie; you thought what a big sensation vour partv would make in , Thiiuble Alley.\ \Yes said Nellie, \if papa is willing.\. \ily eldest bom,\ said her father fondly, 'your paiMi's purse has a long string, still <t might be stretched too far. I always did lislike the fass of a party, and 1 guess I :an tmst your prudent head to control ,-our tender heart. Give the Thimble- 411evites a generous dinner on yonr birth- lay 'and what you will. I'll see that Dr. Moore calls upon the laoe-menders laughter.\ Not fairy huAds, oh, no! bnt human, 'oviog hands that did the work; some ot 'hem rongh and black t'uut shoveled in the :oal into the empty boxes; some of them ;mall and chapped that* helped along their Sinner. But when the stars shone out, not due in that large tenement bnilding went to sleep cold or hungry on that holiday aight. -Mother,\ said Luln softly, \the doctot 5ays I will soon be well enough to wheel my chair all around, and that possibly, itome day, I may walk abont with the help of crutches.\ \Yes mv ditrltng, I know.\ \And when I told him all about Miss Strong's noble deeds, and praised her ten- der heart, he smiled and looked.sojdcased I read his sccret. ilay Heaven bless them both.\ \Amen.\ breathed her mother tearfully. THE M3SPP WIPOW. There i s hardlr » class of living \be- inga -whose wretched conditton appeals more strongly t o the humane feelings of cbaritablj disposed persons, and is whose woeful state there i s more scopa for the display of philanthropic efforts. \ heart, than the widows among the Hindas, in ' her the butt of the Tileat abuses and the most stinging aspersions. She is a widow, and she must pnt np with her lot, and thns she drags on her miii- erable existence, with no* ray of com- fort to chcer her sad soul, and no spftrk of pity to lighten her heavy Let little low-neaueu five or six years thrnst her head in -PleaserSiss Smith, the baby's wotser. gill of thedoi doorwo; Molher thinks it's dTiti. . . ., Soh!\ McUimed Sellio, \whoMbiAyV' •Au Iri«h woiii»n\« <loini rtaln. An tack of croap: the weither has been cool, SS th . litllo fellow WM cold. Mmiy, rn comc. Votfil eirase B» m moment, Mira SttonK-\ „.., -Ye.; bnt m.T not 1 ko, too-poor liUla fcebr?\ ^d timidly about barf dw (tallowed Ml. 8»il h into Suim ^ tha Mb VMlwtwnnun,wlKte X^TSn. bad UqrnUtte rtl-mo^- 3dlwlM dtlM' n* evident at a glanec. Siid on., \ K>bbrf ^ r font left, and htofaAe t - laeebiB • -Ma-a l«a uini on. , ™ ' mUUtrt. 'rn oat e fon r left, an d hia aonldnl atop wSk loM en^b to • aia, bia boaa ia tbio^d on bi i •rihaikd. -rM'llMed thlacTfo^or the foBeral,** SSSJi yomr ^ ftM^ \IS BSTvShm wtia ft a ( VMDtas./ta'n v'mi kribe^nl pv lor to Ok. kov Uiragan':$ Logic. If in the habit of betting, I woiilJ wftger pretty heavily that the man who kc«ps in his placo will not get snnbbed half as often as the man who is never happy unless he is intermeddling in others' affairs. The best advice I conld gire a man who has made a fool of himself woald be to swallow the medicinc of his own compotmding, gracefully, if possible, and thexi get all the satisfaction ho can out of tho dose. I admire justice and just men, yet I have seen some men who. thoroughl:' posted in the art, mado justice fearfal to contemplate. The best justice i know of is that which does not forget mercy as Ungh t by the Creator. Some peofue are down on emotional revirals of religion, but I am not. It is the only way t o throw a single ele ment of gospel light into some intel- lects. I a m not averse to sawing wood either-^when i t is a case of starvation. Th e tondency of religion i s to pnrif; and refine tbe ties of all human naiip nes8. And chastity is estimated t o im- prove man and woman iu all the rela- tions of life; I t tempers the passions, sweetens existence, and improves the heart. Young man, you have i t within your- self t o amount to something. In fact, the world expats you to. See that you d o not disappoint it. L« t me recommend, i n this connection, honest work a t living rates as worthy of yout consideration. Occasionally d o foreign phrases ex- press one*s thoughts on pape r better than plain English. However, when •n author settles down t o i t s s a steady Ihing^ i t i s simply a cloak t o screen his oe. her incompetence an d to hint at learning. It i s difficult t o counsel s man as t o th e neoeasary method to pursu e in order t o make his mark in th e world, bn t it is oomparativaly oasy tocon- gratalafte liim after h e haa hit tb e aarki an d en^hten him that you tf wsgra pfoplissied as much. It IS bad enough for ia young man to make a dnmken sot of himsdf; but vlia i can I say for th e ma n whoee evefy'spre e saps blood fro m his wife 's heart and keen suslenMoe from th e Moaihs of his cfaUdrem? Thisislofwe r . atm tha n the aiiimala em get— tmgo Ledgtr. India. Very few people in Knrope have even tho remotest idea of the miseries and horrors which Hind u wo- men undergo after th e death of their husbands. Th e Hindt u themselves do not fully know the sufferings of theii widowed bisters an d daughters; much less do they care t o alleviate th e hard- ships of their bereaved countrywomen, or t o improve the general statu-i of tho fema'e population of India. Th e cries of th e helpless creatures who are doomed to lifelong widowhood hardly find an echo beyond th e four walls of th e In- dian : enana. Th e evils of widowhood i n Indi a aro man fold, and th e system of early mar- riage makes the m tenfold intense. Among th e Hindus, a boy who is hard- ly ont of his teena is married to a girl who has barely passed twelve summers; and it often happens tha t a wife loses her bushand soon after her marriage, and then she is initiated into the horrors of a widow's life ere she has passed her very girlhood. Even if the would-be husband, after the formal engagement has been made, dies before th e cere- mony of marriage, the girl is condemned to widowhood for all her life. A Hind u woman's period of temporal happiness ceases, irrespective of her ran k or wealth, directly she becomes a widow. Whe n a young man dies his >arents an d friends are iu deep monm - ng for him, expressing th e greatest grief for his untimely loss; but few >eople understand or care to compre- lend th e utter wretchednes-r i n which h e leaves his young wife, who is yet too tender and inexperienced t o bear with even th e commonest hardship of this world. No sooner has th e husband breathed his last than th e young wife is mado to give up all tokens of the married state, and to forego all pleas- ures and luxuries as utterly unsuitable for he r present condition. Th e formal period of mourning for a widow in Bengal last* for one month. O n tho tliirtcenth day after th e fun- eral th e widow is allowed, after neces- sarv ablutions, to change th e clothes that she haa worn since her husband's death. Her head, which was covered with glossy hair only th e other day, is completelv shaved, and tbe Brahmans and the bubers * wives have t o be paid their gratuities for (hw cruel ceremony. Six weeks after he r husband's death th e widow has again to wear those clothes—the very sight of which sends a shudder through her inmost soul— which she had pu t on for the first thir- teen days. Sh e c;ai change them only on one condition, that she mtist go on a pilgrimage t o th e holy river tranges (.which is often impossible ou account of distance), and perform ablutions iu its purifying waters. After that she has t o wear the plainest cotto.i dress, and live on th e simxdest single meal a day, only varied with frequent fasts. Th e widow who has ho parents has to pass her whole life under the roof of her father-in-law, and then she knows no comfort whatever. She has t o meet from he r late husband's relations only unkind looks and unjust reproaches. She has to work like a slave, and for tho reward of all her drndgery she only receives hatred an d abhorrence from he r mother-in-law and sisters-in-law. If there is any disorder an the domestic arrangements of the family, the widow is blamed and cursed for it. Even death cannot save a -widow from indig- nities. For when a wife dies she is burn t i n th e clothes she had on. bn t a widow's corpse is covere.l with a coarse white cloth, and there is little ceremony at he r funeral. Short Sermons. I long ago dun made ux> my mind dat aiverage humanity exi)ects toe much on dis airtli, an' dsvt we am all too selfish t o really enjoy ourselves. If we plan fu r a huckleberry excur- shun we look fu r dry weather, no mat- ^ ^ ter how much our naybur's co'n an Durin g this time she has to prepare taters want rain, h-rr ownn food,, confinineg herselff too a If dar am any TH E UTTLE FOLKA IJttI«> Wc-tttb^r-WlM. Rosv litUe I>tiui>I«che«ks Came it^tnting ia frum play. Tired out »nd sleoi»y uo, \TVai suoli ft day. On tor knee she dosed awhn«, Tben said, nu she looked, \Folki ciiU«d winter veathtr raw; I think this must bt^ ciwked.\ —Grcrje Cooptr. in Harper'• Xouno Blll>-*» -Kzp««IIUua.** Billy lived in Chicago. I dare saj you may have heard of Chicago, though perhaps you have never heard of my friend Billy, the butlalo-hunter, who lived in Chicago, away down on tho Sout h Side, where he could hear the waves of Lak e Michigan breaking upon th e gravelly beach. I n the winter these same waves piled up a curious ice-wall against the break- waters. Bu t Billy got tired of listen- ing t o this thunder of th e waves winter and summer. He did not care for the ice-wall on the break-water. He just thought Chicago was the most un- interesting town a fellow ever lived in. Many a country boy would have been : delighted to see'what Hilly saw every day, but Billy didn't care 'for it We all of us incline t o thiak our own sur- roundings th e dullest of all, and to wish we were somebody else, or that wo were somewhere else, or that we did something else, or knew somebody else, or hotl something else, or that some- how we could liick this world about us into a cocked hat, and liave things dilTerent from what they are. -Billy thought he would like t o go to Color^o and hunt buffaloes, or do any other wonderful thing that offered itself. He never stopi>ed t o think how much ; easier it is for a boy t o build a railroad, I or command a canal-boat, or go t o sea, or kill an elk in a story, than it is for a real boy to build a real railroad. We folks who write stories do not of- ten feel sorry for our boys when we got them into scrai>es. W e know how easy it is t o get a boy out of a scrai>e, if the boy is only a story l)oy. Bu t when a real boy gets into a real scrape, it ia •1—1—1 ^as afraid ^^ \You were afraid I And you thought , Tou could shoot him! Why , you wo^d | kill vonrself sooner tha n tb e thief if vou should shoot. Besides, this rusty old thing hasn t been loaded for five vears, and vou couldn't make it go off If it was loaded. Marii, that boy a out of his haad. I am sure it is a case of scarlet fever, liise up here ; let me see vour throat.\ Th e throat looked well enoxighw bu t something was th e matter. At latt it was concluded that h e was bilioos. \Whenever you cannot tell what is th e matter with a i»ersM5n, yon may safely conclude that h e is bilious. So i;illy had to take one of McHum's World- W0XA5 GOSSllFr in $tatloMxy. Tashionable correspand«sce tju* street asd nnmber in i»cTipt or text « o the nght-han<l top of the she^ Tiie d^ of th« week is also being wrived, imd heads the tcT> line- retams its popa- larilv. A new •pangled wax of several colore and a good deal t>f cold is rtvlish. Kew s^als are of crrstal gl*»s ia color*. Some have the initial exuTs^e^ Ttpon th^. or the Christian name, and others a mattt.>. frects are gwinins; xa la - vot. Thote who ha-re a family crest »«• nsins it on paper and waL and a good maav vto have not one are ado|itisiij I eomethinctliat scits their fani-y. I Mourauig ^tatiunerT? It remain* sraelt Keno^ed, I^ti-Bilious, Blood-Vurify- , the same- Th-re ars thr^ «tan^ ui^ ing, and Oencral-Kegulator Pills. He for the bUck-e^e, ^e U& taken them bef^- -d he knew 1 Iso^^ ttxat if h e were not sick Wfor e Ukmg j ga^^ one. he would be sick enough alter- , jj^tto note paper for the «^rre^H7»4len«» ward. : ^f > oonc mi^eef has some poj'ular His father locked u p the five-shooter | *|th a motto suniififsmt of the pr^ in adrawer , where n o thief w..nld b e • ^t taste- One is \CUinbiai; Vpthe tiold- likelv t o kill himself with it. and his , en Stairs\ in old ffi'ld; aootht-r ia. mother left a lamp burning ia l?iliys • T^s ^on m«.~wlale a tUL-d is. -Alls room and the door open into her own. • •^Vell-'' Th e General-KeguUtor made him so ; deathly sick that Billy W to give u p S^n^th^^ the bullaloes for that night. ( ^ ^^ennark a fio«t=r-iK.mr- What was his disgust when his mother ^ ^^^ j^jrolar. hke a i«aa«T. fuftohLL. came into his room in th e morning with ; .jyi^^ose. t»r one whicii so^-i a cnp of tea and told him that Be n i ^^entimeut. Scn.timt'nt tttit-». TLtrr*^ i* a Clark had ru n off in the night. -A.nd var.vtx of pink and white at^te whi.-h his mother added that it was all l»e- - ' 's \ ' cause Beu's mother ha^ln't nianageil him right. Mrs. Clark never did know how to manage her son. And then Hilly*s mother said it would just kill he r if her bov should ru n oil. But Mr. Clark said Ben could stav till he got sic'; of it, and then he'd surely come back. I'oor Billy I he was so overcome by hia mother's kinduess that he made u p U prettv anil i ^-allvd ' - Blc-'h- A name olWn catcher th? wpalax ta-ae. Another variftv is the ~llaiiil'Ou-,~ that ha** a raggi d v^i-A-i prij'nntir oolcrs. -IJoVal red\ raj^ r t.it i«Ttxiar m cities. It i - of H nio-1 bnlUaut tni-. btil it is looted npoa h-. r.? ia very t.ad Uetl is. howe^ er. very fa-^hiouaUe in .-ftainer pood', and t-jipeciiUv p^'pnlar fur r^xd ca-es. I'uf-ibiv n d ^uvtloj e- will m time be used. There i-: a iiv^ papt-r c^-d -gilt-tinted.\ U may answer for uolden .ut . li„.uU bSart full of envy ! he ow food confinin hersel t single meal a day, which consists of boiled coarse rice, simplest vegetables, ghi, or clarified butter, and milk. She is forbidden t o do her hair, and to pu t nuy scent or oil on her body. Sh e must put on th e same cotton sari day. and night, even when it is wet, and) must Aschew the pleasure of a bed, and! lie down on th e bare groand, or per- haps on a coarse blanket spread on it; in somo cases she cannot oven have her hair dried in the sun after daily morn- ing ablution, wh^ she must go through before sli® can pu t a particle of food in her mouth. Th e old women sav that th e soul of a man dc'ath ascends to heaven quickly and pleasantly in proportion to the bodily inflictions which his wife can undergo in th e mont h after th e death of he r husband. Consequently, the new-made widow, if not for any other reason, a t least for tho benefit of the soul of her departed husband, must submit t o con- tinuous abstinence and excruciating self-intlictions. Th e widow is, in fact, looked upon as th e \evil one\ of the house. In tho Northwest Provinces of ludi a widows suffer treatment far worse than tha t t o whivh their sisters in Bengal are subjected. any danger of spring frosts we exi>eck dey will fly ober our garden an' light down on somebody else's truck- patch. We expeck cyclones now an' den in de nftteral order of fings, bnt we doan* expeck *em t o hit our eand of de county. W e am sorry fu r sich people as was in de way, but'dey orter bin som'ers else, vou know. If we take i n a tram p over night we expect him to b e honfest' an' grateful. If anybody else takes in one an' gits beat, our vardict am dat it sorved *em right. a wome n , \Ve expect t o git do big eand of de after his • trado when we swap bosses wid a man, bu t if we diskiver dat we hev been cheated we waat de law to punish him for a swindler. ?Ioas' of us a m wilUn' to take our chances on matrimony, if de gal am for the good luck of Beu Clark He had one little note from Ben an- nouncing liis arrival at Denver : an d from not getting any more letters h e supi>osed that Ben had gone directly out on tho plains to hunt buir ;iloes. Clearly he was where there were no posto^i-es. Th e other sui>position •und to go to th e that he might not have money enough plains aud\ shoot a buffalo. H e had to bay a two-cent stamp did not occur cnnraciej saved his small change until h e got a to Billy. In the stones he reail, lH>ys ; ^ - - -^ea, alwavs found money somehow when • quite another thing. Bn t Billy was bou tire «nch orv-tAl for a crvh-tal wAldinc. or t^Uver for the quarter of a c-.iitmy 'cele- bration- ,. , _ rorTe«T>ou Jence cards are l-ut litUe •a-^ed. note ^-beet-c l.eiuj; alm.»-'t df tv^-'-ox. in\ 4-anis, that i-^ a ladv's card, is tl^-xl-v muses' caxd< are 'M-dh nliemen ns-e a smaller one. ^UslJ- and often . ^vn les-i i c size. Manv ladie-^ n-e their vi-iiting carf for all sm:Ul aff;dr«, merely affixins this date. chajTiCteriziu^ihe iu^ita^ou'B-ithlhf . ^ _ — —— ^ tftC— ITI good-lookin' or do young man has cash, bu t when de rollin'-pins bogin t o fly we blame our friends dat dey didn't warn If we lose our pocket-book we arpy dat de pu'^son who find it am as bad as a thief if ho doan' return iL If we find some one else's •{>ocket-book we—well, : i t comes like pullin' teeth t o let go. i ' W o respeck our naybur, but we want ! our beets an' cabbage an' onions t o keep A widow among th e respectable about a week ahead of his. clajUes Tn this land of rigid Hinduism { W e doan' know of any pertickler rea- ls considered and treated as something sou why lightning should strike our worse than the meanest criminal in the world. Directly after the death of her htisband she is shunned by her relations and friends, and, as if her breath or touch would spread among them the contagion of her crime—the natural death of her husband—they do not even approach near her, bnt send the barbers' wives, who play an important part iu all Hindu ceremonies, to divest her of all her ornaments and fineries. These mercena^ persona often proceed to their task in a most heart-rending manner; bnt that is tho command of tlieir mistresses, and they must obey it No sooner has the husband breathed his last than these hirelings rush at their victim and snatch off her earrings and nose-rings. Ornaments plaited into the lia.r are torn away, and if the arms are covered with gold and silver bracelets, they cJo not take the time t o draw them off one by ono, bnt holding her arm on the ground, they hammer with a stone un- til the met^, often solid and heavy, breiks in two; i t matters not to them how many wounds are inflicted, even if the widow i s but a child of six or seven, who does not know what a hiu- band means; they have no pity. At th e funeral th e relatives of th e deceased, male an d female, aocompany the corpse^ an d all, rich or poor, mns^ g o on foot, th e women, with their veils draw n over their faeee, foUowiac, an d last comes th e widow, preceded by th e barbers' wives, wh o tidce great care t o kee p her a t a reepeetiOde distance from. ba'n, but w e kin furnish half a dozen reasons why it should burn ba'ns all around us. We begin in October to predict a mild winter, an* if we happen to git one w e kick liko a steer d c nex'summer bekase we hev to pay mo* fur ice. I tell ye, my frens, when I come to realize j'ist what a queer piece of clay we am, an* how much workin* ober we need to come out perfeck, I can't won- der ober de shoutin' and hurrahin' in Heaben wlien ono of us grown folks finds his way in.— Detroit Free Press, J!^ primapA waiaMiriil ^md bk^hrn Whisky and PIstoN In C<>partr.er<thip. What is our country coming to, tha t orery young man carries a weapon of death in his pocket? They did not txse to d o so. I understand tha t most ev- ery lad i n our community carries a pis- toL Wha t for and why ? Are ou r taws an d our courts powerless t o pro- teL-lour people? Hav e we n o j^ge norjnriee? Have even th e boys got to protect an d defend themselves i \ man may b e constrained t o carry a pis* t<'l on some omergency, bnt I believe Judg e Hammon d was right when h e cha^^ th e grand jury tha t a ma n wh o habitnally carried a pistol was a cow- ard. The pistol may make a bully of him, an d t^n he i s still more contemp- tible, for he is a dangerous fooL I heard a votmg man confess tha t h e carried a pistol for two years, an d one morning h e forgot it, an d he felt so • • • -at if a 1 . .helpless tha t if a feUer ha d the main body of th e mourners, shoot-, crooked his finger a t him he would ing oa t as th^ g o along t o varm tM have ran like a tnrkqr. Thi s mad e hi m pie of tha apptOMh of the ashamed ot himself, an d h e discarded •tforgood. Whisk y and pistoU ar e ID copartnership, an d i t i s a ba d ftrtn. '\BUI Arp, in Atlanta Corutitution. deieetJSwiow. Boonal^the pnahe d isto thatraft ha a t o iiiiaaia, i n ha r ••d tbMsdM from dl tb* other pM|>K bo^r kM faMB Imra t to m Asa wtea aU ol Omm ham stwtad to r W. tb•«iaa«^ Iv^ Cimiiw • Ol—riJ M- For a priM-llghtar-**Ha that ia dowaaeadisarBofalL* For a saamsteeas—«Be vhat 70 a aeemtobiBL* _ For a WaU street speealalor^-Ood tempera tlia wind t o th e shor n Iamb.* F^ th e save r dollar^**! wool d rathe r die tha n For th e ' b e debased.* ftthionabl e 'Wortl i oTereooMs iU-vilL' aakw— quarter. So one day it was made u p between him and Ben Clark and Tommy Gates that they would go t o Colorado. They were i n th e loft of Billy's father's st i- ble when the plan was fixed upon. The n they told all the wonderful In- dian stories and robber stories they could think of, and when these gave ont, they came t o ghost sto ies. Poo r Billy got his head so fall of these things'that he was afraid t o blow out the lamp when it came t o be bed- time. He awoke iu a fr^nt, sure that burglars were climbing in at the win- dow, and he covered u p his head, and kept it covered for several hours; and when at last he peeped timidly out, he found that it had been daylight for au hour. Th e sun was blazing down on the waves of Lake Mi higan, and mak- ing it look like a sea of gold. Bu t Billy was bent ou his \expedi- tion.\ Ben Clark ha d some money in the bank, and i t would not cost much t o go in an emigrant train. Billy had a watch which his uncle had given him because Billy was named for him. H e could pawn that foi mouev. Tomm y bad a good many plans for raising money, bu t they never came t c anythmg. He read over all the stories about boys who had become sailors and buffalo-hunters, and money always seemed to come to the l>oys in the stories just i u the nick of time. Tommy did not doubt that h e also would find some old man that he had never heard of, or some benevolent robber, or some doting aunt, or somebody who would pu t the money in his pocket before the appointed time shotild arrive. But when th e first day of April came —th e time appointed for settinjr forth— Tommv had no money. Billy, who had talked' so much about buffaloes and hunters that the boys callc<l him al- ready *'the buffalo-hunter,\ was all reiidy to go. Poo r Tommy cotdd not go ! Bu t never mind, th e others would ship their buffalo-skins t o Tommy, who conld sell them and come out t o Colorado on th e proceeds. Then th e three friends would form au invincible band, which n o Ind'a n or buffalo could resist or evade. Billy and his friend Be n were t o go on.,the midnight train. Tomm y was coming down t o see them off. Billy got an ohl revolver out of the drawer, where th e harmless thing was kept, and pu t i t under the head of hLs l>ed. He went t o be d early. Bu t when his mother kissed him a gentle goodruight, a lum p came in his throat. Ho w could he give he r so much pain? Kever mind, h e thought, h e would write t o her ; and then she would b e glad when h e should come back, i n three years, an d tell he r all his adven« ventures. Women never could under- stand boys, anvhow. Th^ wer e such cowards! If a' boy were t o stay b y his mothe r alway s he. miga t as well b e a foot a t once—or a girh Bn t it was an nnlnckly night fo r Baiv . The more he thought of it, th e worse he felt about leaving his mother, an d tb e mor e h e thought of ho w nho would feel vh^ h e was gone. He turne d over restlessly on his be d so often tha t hu mother grew uneasy, an d came into th e room. ''Why. BiUy. whaTa tho matter? \ abeMbML \I do«*t fM vuiy well, mother.* said ^Iwtevord! Hi a BotherMthis imlasb vhieh . indeed, waa beating afta forioua rat e fro m esdtement . She was that be bad a fever, an d the lower comer- _ thev needed it badlv. Spealdng o£ soajethiug now. a Bu t Billv had lost all interest i n his Tiolet pHpi>ed throa-di an inri^icm made l a lessons, \i h e teacher ha d written to the corner of the n-.te or pasted on is the his mother, bu t nothing could make i hOest fad iu the sw.H?t girl s letter. liillv stuJv. H e pasted the walli of his room over with pictures of bloody i»i-tr«-....iiic encounters l>etweeu white men and red men and all sorts of men and wild beasts. At last, after half a year, he d^'ter- mined t o go to <'olora<lo, having ha d | a second letter from Ben- Then came another letter. It is evi.!- tit womankind enj«y« nrit-b J,inching. She pint-hes hex she pint-ht 5 her hand- in ti::ht glove*, and *'htf pinches her w:u>t to a ^K'iut that luaie-^ her ! breathim; m-re x.autim? and i»affi-ig. ' late Oavs «Le ha* taten to pictduiu: or xue u iswue | choldng fcer n-cfc into hiuh. ti^'hl coUar-w This last letter from Ben I'lark had U it were not f.>r the been verv short and indefinite. It said \I have 'had many adventures, some of them awful rough ones, but I've not, killed a buflalo yet. They are not so thick zs I thought- 'iBetter stay where you are if vou don't want t o see roagh times. Now, mv dear friend, I want you to lend me'a little money. I haven t got anv clothes, and a m almost starved to death. I expect to find a place in a restaurant, and when 1 come home I will pay you.\ This wob an unexpected tur n of events. Billy thought th e matter over. Billv did not go off that night. The next morning he had a conversation with poor Mrs. Clark, which resulted in the disgusted Bens coming home. isillv's father and mother found i t all out after awhile, anl Billy tore down all the pictures of hunting. Th e next week h e began to improve in his studies. In a month he was again among th e best scholars in his class. Uut ho has never shot a buffalo with that old rusty revolver.— Edward Eg- g:e.tton, in Youth^s Companion. Old General Malone, who was at one time quite prominent in .Arkansaw. bn t who has fallen into politick desuetude, attended church regularly, but iiever faUed t o doze off to sleep immediaUdy after th e preacher introduced his sub- jei-t. One dav old Parson Sanderson stopped th e General in th e street and said: \Brother Malone, how did yo u like m y sermon yesterday?\ \Firs t rat^».* -Xo w look here, brother, yon didn't hear a word of it.\ heard as much of i t as of an y ser- mon I ever heard you preadu * \Thafs the trouble.- You*ve never heard any of m v sermons. Why is this?\ -Because T go t o sleep, I anppose-\ \But why d o you sleep?\ \Because I am sleepy.* ''Wbydon' ^ yo n tak e something to kee p you awake during services ? Yon annoy mo very much. For goodness sake, take something t o bee p yon awake.\ -My denr brother, th e reason I never take anything to keep me awake i s be- cause 1 find i t plesaanter to t^te some- thing t o mak e m e sleep.*—.«frfco»wate> Trgpeter. ^^ A Wiw •ukSilag-Blrd. -Wmdam does no t depen d on ai^ aa you M know, m y dears. The ant an d ishinent for omen is deeidt-dl^^reptitmaU one would imagine the older woman. ua«; jirac^-iixg for a tisbt-Tiii* daxift i u the air. W Ktr'^iwD Aon^hforthe Priueess of Wales to^r roUar^ She has the u.ck of bnt when a Ittt,cliabl'y-chtnn^ no neck at all, irinches and cranes herself into Buch a collar, it di-.-tre-.-ins- and we implore m^Iy for a rnni^luuem to fit her ^\^lere are some women \a ho have readte J vearH that Phonl<l mike them »iet them- selves ui» as mod-Is for veiieratiim «h5 jainse n< jwun- They are indi^idtials «0- tiUed to the i>rivileve of taki--u: a rert. Thev al-o ma&e t u tired who iani theu '^'^^^a woman furl^ishes he^lf np in pleat-J, poffs, and f nrlielowji, maldng thereby an impression on our minds of a craft dis- abled and oat of it« re^kirnins. Earh fnr- below is a si^mal of di-rtxe-^s. ll makes u^ sad to s>e her rtrikini: a:rain«t the rocks of nnhappiness before goiiy; down u hojMde-* wreck- Another most apcmiring sisht is lo i;a=e upon the otitline« of a slender girl, with a slender wai-t, slender neck, and a dimnnt- iap. slender, but, oh! so high. ImI. She's the fashion but a f^.ectacle t o make a heait of Lrown stone shed tears. That hat i« a-? cosmoiK»Ute as the his- toric Tower of l^al>eL It is English fom»- dotion. of rn-nch arfdut^-tnre. <>rjentid m coloring, an American montoaent in height and a CSaiden of Eden for leiapla- tion- You lose either j oar tf^>er or year heart in its presence- It makes you «igh for a rtt^ladder climb t o oTB top and sm-^h the whole ctm- cem. or else you reqnire^ the pgcsenc^.^a sqni^ of police t o restrain yon from ing the lancy red lip« of i» owner.— Chicago Letiier. Siroi For »I igK 1X7—*Be vbo na* > MRro •n fo r Iiim vho comas Ute.* -TholnaM rlomr vwlKMa fiaacM haa i -WiU i dlthjrfdM . thOD^ WOOIO B mother •pint Ol cooling Billy- Chaemtte Tosge liMjiwlwrea a pof)- ular accottnt of Qti\«n Vis!ori»*» Tthirji TriU lie called \Tiie •nrforim H«U CeutuiT--' Kate Fixxx>. at a xecest bsi Irv women. thnlloU ier hraTTtn _ qnent fc-peecliirhexi proponmg tlie toa^ \The mm. God bin s tli«a.- A 3CEW wort for women lias l»«l oeMfaDy intxcJoeea—lliat of amanMolal Uafba c<ittuig. With it thcT.iaalEii aa imitation of tlie finest vood-carrms. A \rosas : in tbe State of ICdnsan intJud and sjld «noiiJt stxawbemea te baT her luubsnd a fiddle and dioljpm. IShs i s otd j a sampls of wta i Avlane left. Xiu Hiaata. a Japanesa ladj, i. siiiJr- in£ i n aVTeatemMatj^aad eoOess tcty to engaciac m a misnoa sack l a Japan. Sb. & a wy InAellijant aad atj^v-^; IbtE.'BoircicACT. , th.BanlIarfleat^•aIi..^n. -^h. tao. in toei. often to know S^iS^®-® \ mora than aane of tbe laneatanimala. taa d etealad for fl The bnmmiae-bild. too. tbong h ths amalleat oT Inas. ia no t laAias i n is- tolligwce. A Moid o» tk. ](]IK. ItODJESKA laDbattiB a t tbe ~ - iaaeoled s ST jss^Jsrt^^ i of tk o iSd. s yooac ^teSDr— Id him . hold- HW timi lira •aafWacoar*- .alisfatedMitho wlida <aoaata i Som e fffSiTI
